West Lake

This is posted once again...

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May 17th 2012
Well we finally got internet here at Zhejiang University. The problem is that many of the websites are blocked. After many proxy tries and fails, I was told that this website works in China, and so far it seems to work so thats good. Friday – We got to China around 2:30 in the afternoon on Friday and then took the 3 hour bus ride from Shanghai into Hangzhou. We arrived here after a long traffic ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more